Throwback Thursday: Notre Dame Fighting Irish VS Nebraska, 1947
The game heralded as a battle of beefy lines turned into a romping revue for scampering halfbacks as stubborn Nebraska succumbed before Notre Dame’s concentrated land and air attack.
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The game heralded as a battle of beefy lines turned into a romping revue for scampering halfbacks as stubborn Nebraska succumbed before Notre Dame’s concentrated land and air attack.
Written by Tyson Bird, Photographs by Eric W. Pohl | From the January 2021 issue | Updated: December 17, 2020 | Filed Under: Eat + Drink David Strohmeyer Sr. and David Strohmeyer Jr. at their G and S Groves in McAllen When working in his family’s citrus groves, David Strohmeyer Jr. likes to take an occasional refreshment break. He squeezes a just-picked Persian lime into his water and chugs the bottle on the spot. “It will get you through the day,” he says. If you’d told him 20 years ago he’d be a farmer in the Rio Grande Valley, “I’d never have believed you,” Strohmeyer sa...